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| adam_text | Foreword by David Gross PaSe
χ ϋ
From the Preface to the First Edition
xv
Preface to the Second Edition
xix
Part I Basics
ι
1
A brief introduction
3
1.1
The road to unification
3
1.2
String theory as a unified theory of physics
6
1.3
String theory and its verification
9
1.4
Developments and outlook
11
2
Special relativity and extra dimensions
13
2.1
Units and parameters
13
2.2
Intervals and
Lorentz
transformations
15
2.3
Light-cone coordinates
22
2.4
Relativistic energy and momentum
26
2.5
Light-cone energy and momentum
28
2.6
Lorentz
invariance
with extra dimensions
30
2.7
Compact extra dimensions
31
2.8
Orhifolds
35
2.9
Quantum mechanics and the square well
36
2.10
Square well
w
ith an extra dimension
38
3
Electromagnetism and gravitation in various dimensions
45
. 1
Classical
electrod)
namies
45
.2
Electromagnetism in three dimensions
47
.3
Manifesti},
relativistic
electrod)
namies
48
.4
An aside on spheres in higher dimensions
52
.5
Electric fields in higher dimensions
55
.6
Gra itation and Planck s length
58
Gravitational potentials
52
,s The Planck length in arious dimensions
63
3.9
Gravitational constants and compactification
64
3.10
Large extra dimensions
67
viii Contents
4
Nonrelativistic strings
73
4.1
Equations of motion for transverse oscillations
73
4.2
Boundary conditions and initial conditions
75
4.3
Frequencies of transverse oscillation
76
4.4
More general oscillating strings
77
4.5
A brief review of Lagrangian mechanics
78
4.6
The nonrelativistic string Lagrangian
81
5
The relativistic point particle
89
5.1
Action for a relativistic point particle
89
5.2
Reparameterization
invariance
93
5.3
Equations of motion
94
5.4
Relativistic particle with electric charge
97
6
Relativistic strings
100
6.1
Area functional for spatial surfaces
100
6.2
Reparameterization
invariance
of the area
103
6.3
Area functional for spacetime surfaces
106
6.4
The Nambu-Goto string action
111
6.5
Equations of motion, boundary conditions, and D-branes
112
6.6
The static gauge
116
6.7
Tension and energy of a stretched string
118
6.8
Action in terms of transverse velocity
120
6.9
Motion of open string endpoints
124
7
String parameterization and classical motion
130
7.1
Choosing a a parameterization
130
7.2
Physical interpretation of the string equation of motion I
32
7.3
Wave equation and constraints
134
7.4
General motion of an open string
136
7.5
Motion of closed strings and cusps
142
7.6
Cosmic strings
145
8
World-sheet currents
154
5.1 Electric charge conservation
154
5.2 ( onsen
ed
charges from Lasirangian symmetries
155
5.3 Conserved currents on the world-sheet
159
5.4 The complete momentum current
161
H.5 L.
orent/
s nimetrv, and associated currents
165
5.0 The slope parameter
ď
168
9
Light-cone relativistic strings
175
9.1
A class of choices for
τ
175
9.2
The associated
σ
parameterization
178
IX
Contents
9.3
Constraints and wave equations
9.4
Wave equation and mode expansions
9.5
Light-cone solution of equations of motion
10
Light-cone fields and particles
1
0.1
Introduction
1
0.2
An action for scalar fields
10.3
Classical plane-wave solutions
10.4
Quantum scalar fields and particle states
10.5
Maxwell fields and photon states
10.6
Gravitational fields and graviton states
11
The relativistic quantum point particle
I
.
I Light-cone point particle
1
.2 Heisenberg
and
Schrödinger
pictures
1.3 Quantization of the point particle
1
.4
Quantum particle and scalar particles
1
.5
Light-cone momentum operators
1
.6
Light-cone Lorent/ generators
12
Relativistic quantum open strings
1
2.
1 Light-cone Hamiltonian and commutators
1
2.2
Commutation relations for oscillators
1
2.3
Strings as harmonic oscillators
1
2.4
Transverse Virasoro operators
1
2.5
Lorent/ generators
1
2.6
Constructing the state space
1
2.7
Equations of motion
1
2.8
Tachyons and D-brane decay
13
Relativistic quantum closed strings
I
3.
1 Mode expansions and commutation relations
1
3.2
Closed string Virasoro operators
I
3.3
Closed string state space
I
3.4
String coupling and the dilaton
I
3.5
Closed strings on the F. /I> orbil old
I
3.6
The twisted sector of the orbifold
1
82
1
83
1
86
1
94
1
94
1
95
1
97
200
206
209
216
216
218
220
225
226
229
236
236
24
1
246
250
259
262
268
270
280
280
286
290
294
246
2УЅ
14
A look at relativistic superstrings
14.
1 Introduction
14.2
Anticommuting variables and operators
14.3
World-sheet
fermions
14.4
Neveu—
Schwarz
sector
14.5
Ramond
sector
307
307
308
309
312
315
Contents
14.6
Counting states
317
14.7
Open superstrings
320
14.8
Closed string theories
322
Part II Developments
329
15
D-branes and gauge fields
331
15.1
D^-branes and boundary conditions
331
15.2
Quantizing open strings on Dp-branes
333
15.3
Open strings between parallel D/^-branes
338
15.4
Strings between parallel Dp- and Dcy-branes
345
16
String charge and electric charge
356
1
6.
1 Fundamental string charge
356
1
6.2
Visualizing string charge
362
16.3
Strings ending on D-branes
365
16.4
D-brane charges
370
17
T-duality of closed strings
376
1
7.
1 Duality symmetries and Hamiltonians
376
1
7.2
Winding closed strings
378
1
7.3
Left movers and right movers
38
1
1
7.4
Quantization and commutation relations
383
1
7.5
Constraint and mass formula
386
1
7.6
State space of compactified closed strings
388
1
7.7
A striking spectrum coincidence
392
1
7.8
Duality as a full quantum symmetry
394
18
T-duality of open strings
400
1
8.
1 T-duality and D-branes
400
1
8.2
i (
] )
gauge transformations
404
1
8.3
Wilson lines on circles
406
I
8.4
Open strings and Wilson lines 410
19
Electromagnetic fields on D-branes 4l5
19.1
Maxwell fields coupling to open strings
415
19.2
D-branes with electric fields
418
19.3
D-branes with magnetic fields
423
20
Nonlinear and Born-lnfeld electrodynamics
433
20.1
The framework of nonlinear electrodynamics
433
20.2
Born-lnfeld electrodynamics
438
20.3
Born-lnfeld theory and T-duality
443
xi Contents
21
String theory and particle physics
45
1
2
1
.
1 Intersecting
Dó-branes
45
1
21.2
D-branes and the Standard Model gauge group
457
21.3
Open strings and the Standard Model
fermions
463
21.4
The Standard Model on intersecting
Dó-branes
472
21.5
String theory models of particle physics
479
21.6
Moduli stabilization and the landscape
481
22
String thermodynamics and black holes
495
22.1
A review of statistical mechanics
495
22.2
Partitions and the quantum violin string
498
22.3 Hagedorn
temperature
505
22.4
Relativistic particle partition function
507
22.5
Single string partition function
509
22.6
Black holes and entropy
513
22.7
Counting states of a black hole
517
23
Strong interactions and AdS/CFT
525
23.1
Introduction
525
23.2
Mesons and quantum rotating strings
526
23.3
The energy of a stretched effective string
531
23.4
A large-zV limit of a gauge theory
533
23.5
Gravitational effects of massive sources
535
23.6
Motivating the AdS/CFT correspondence
537
23.7
Parameters in the AdS/CFT correspondence
541
23.8
Hyperbolic spaces and
conformai
boundary
543
23.9
Geometry of AdS and holography
549
23.10
AdS/CFT at finite temperature
554
23.11
The quark-gluon plasma
559
24
Covariant string quantization
568
24.1
Introduction
568
24.2
Open string Virasoro operators
570
24.3
Selecting the quantum constraints 572
24.4
Lorentz
covariant state space
5
24.5
Closed string Virasoro operators
580
24.6
The Pohakov string action
582
25
String interactions and Riemann surfaces
591
25.1
Introduction
591
25.2
Interactions and
observables
592
25.3
String interactions and global world-sheets
595
25.4
World-sheets as Riemann surfaces
598
25.5 Schwarz—Christoffel map
and three-string interaction
602
xii Contents
25.6 Moduli
spaces of
Riemann
surfaces
608
25.7
Four open string interaction
617
25.8
Veneziano
amplitude
622
26
Loop amplitudes in string theory
630
26.1
Loop diagrams and ultraviolet divergences
630
26.2 Annuli
and one-loop open strings
63
1
26.3 Annuli
and electrostatic capacitance
636
26.4
Non-planar open string diagrams
642
26.5
Four closed string interactions
643
26.6
The moduli space of tori
646
References
659
Index
667
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